Benjamin Whorf
Benjamin Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorfwas an American linguist and fire prevention engineer. Whorf is widely known as an advocate for the idea that because of linguistic differences in grammar and usage, speakers of different languages conceptualize and experience the world differently. This principle has frequently been called the "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis", after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, but Whorf called it the principle of linguistic relativity, because he saw the idea as having implications similar to Einstein's principle of physical relativity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth24 April 1897
CountryUnited States of America
Benjamin Whorf quotes about
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.